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GATEWAY BULLETIN of the ROTARY CLUB of BOMBAY Celebrating 90 Years of Service Volume No Club of Bombay DISTRICT 3141 GATEWAY BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY Celebrating 90 Years of Service Volume No. 60 | Issue No. 35 | MARCH 19, 2019 G ROTA IN RY W V E O N W E S R C E S L R E A B E R Y A G TI N N G AZI 90 A M IN THIS SPECIAL EDITION >> #celebrating90amazingyears < SERVICE ABOVE SELF: Mahatma Gandhi’s message to Rotarians today > page 2 < THE RIGHTS OF MAN: H.G. Wells shows the way ahead > page 3 < CELEBRATING TOGETHER: Introducing the guests of the Rotary Club of Bombay > pages 4 & 5 < WHAT DO PEOPLE WANT? Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai says we must find the answer > pages 6 & 7 For private circulation onlyFor | www.rotaryclubofbombay.org private circulation BACK TO THE FUTURE A DECADE FROM strong parallels between his MY SEVEN POINTS FOR NOW, WHEN THE principles and those that A NEW WORLD ORDER guide the Rotarian way of life. ROTARY CLUB OF By M.K. Gandhi BOMBAY TURNS As for what one should inspire to, what those of us HUNDRED, WE WILL who have, should do for LOOK BACK AND those who don’t have – it SEE HOW WE HAVE is worth elucidating the SERVED THOSE IN rights of man. The Gateway extracts an essay from The NEED. This will not be to Rotarian dated September rest on our laurels but to 1941 written by historian and gauge the work done and to novelist H.G. Wells, whose evaluate what remains to be wealth of imagination gave us done. the dystopian alien novel The These are uncertain times. War of the Worlds. And whose Political ambiguities, immense well of empathy changing social and cultural and deep compassion for orders, an ever-accelerating human kind gave us a pace of life, and the widening Declaration of Basic Rights. February 1942 gap between the haves and ON THIS, OUR 90TH the have-nots: all of these in 1. Equal Distribution the context of a burgeoning, ANNIVERSARY, WE The real implication of equal capitalistic mindset – towards RENEW OUR VOWS, distribution is that each man which star will the average OUR PROMISE TO shall have the wherewithal to Rotarian point his moral supply all his natural needs compass? ROTARY’S SUPREME PRINCIPLE: SERVICE and no more. For example, if This special issue of The ABOVE SELF. one man has a weak digestion Gateway celebrates RCB’s 90th and requires only a quarter of year by drawing inspiration a pound of flour for his bread from the greats. Few and another needs a pound, exemplify the spirit of ‘Service both should be in a position Above Self’, the Rotary to satisfy their wants. motto, better than Mahatma We may not, perhaps, be Gandhi. Since its publication, able to realise this goal, but many have disagreed with we must bear it in mind and his ‘Seven Points for a New work unceasingly to come World Order’, printed in The close to it. Rotarian in February 1942, which we extract here, but 2. Individual Action few can argue that there are It is perfectly possible for Bombay’s first essay in the intricate matter of “classification” adds up to a comprehensive picture of the dynamics of the flourishing, port city at that time. Nearly every form of activity characteristic of an Anglo-Indian settlement was represented in the list of Charter members: Shipping, wine merchants, the press, architects, railways, oil, photography, travel, big business, news agency, telephone, bus service, Bombay port, educations, music, a Christian youth association, insurance, cars, police and hospital. #celebrating90amazingyears 02 THE BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY BACK TO THE FUTURE an individual to adopt this The rich man will be left in 6. The Law of God BASES FOR A way of life without having to possession of his wealth, of To try to root out religion LASTING PEACE wait for others to do so. And which he will use what he itself from society is a wild- if an individual can observe reasonably requires for his By H.G. Wells goose chase. And were such a certain rule of conduct, personal needs and will act an attempt to succeed, it it follows that a group of as a trustee for the remainder would mean the destruction of individuals can do likewise. to be used for society. In this society. The ultimate definition No one need wait for anyone argument honesty on the part of religion may be said to else in order to adopt a right of the trustee is assumed. be obedience to the law of course. MEN GENERALLY 4. Servant of Society God. God and His law are HESITATE TO MAKE synonymous terms. Therefore As soon as man looks upon God signifies an unchanging A BEGINNING IF himself as a servant of and living law. No one has THEY FEEL THAT THE society, earns for its sake, really found Him. But avatars OBJECTIVE CANNOT BE spends for its benefit, then and prophets have, by their purity enters into his earnings HAD IN ITS ENTIRETY. “tapasya,” given to mankind a and there is ahimsa in his SUCH AN ATTITUDE IS faint glimpse of eternal law. A BAR TO PROGRESS. venture. Moreover, if men’s minds turn toward this way of 7. Non-violent Cooperation 3. The Role of the Wealthy life, there will come about a The rich cannot accumulate peaceful revolution in society At the root of this doctrine of wealth without the September 1941 equal distribution must lie – without bitterness. cooperation of the poor 1. Right to Live that of the trusteeship of the 5. Ahimsa in society. Man has been wealthy for the superfluous conversant with violence Every man is a joint Somehow or other the wealth possessed by them. from the beginning, for he inheritor of all the natural wrong belief has taken For according to the doctrine has inherited this strength resources and of the powers, possession of us that they may not possess a rupee from the animal in his nature. inventions, and possibilities ahimsa is pre-eminently a more than their neighbours. It was only when he rose to accumulated by our weapon for individuals and forerunners. He is entitled, How is this to be brought the state of a man that the its use should therefore be within the measure of these about? Non-violently? knowledge of the strength limited to that sphere. In resources and without Or should the wealthy of ahimsa entered into his fact, this is not the case. distinction of race, colour or be dispossessed of their soul. This knowledge has AHIMSA IS DEFINITELY professed beliefs or opinions, possessions? To do his we grown within him slowly but AN ATTRIBUTE OF to the nourishments, naturally have to resort to surely. If this knowledge were covering, and the medical violence. Violent action SOCIETY. TO CONVINCE to penetrate to and spread care needed to realise his full cannot benefit society. Society PEOPLE OF THIS amongst the poor, they would possibilities of physical and will be poorer, for it will lose become strong and would TRUTH IS AT ONCE mental development from gifts of men who know how learn how to free themselves MY EFFORT AND MY birth to death. All men are to to accumulate wealth. by means of non-violence EXPERIMENT. from the crushing inequalities be deemed absolutely equal Therefore, the non-violent which have brought them to in the law... way is evidently superior. the verge of starvation. Continued on Page 11 Although Rotary in Bombay in 1929 was European in inspiration and in the initiative that created it, a need was felt, within a few weeks of its creation, to include prominent Indian Bombayites. On April 10, the following names were deemed worth of consideration: Sir Cowasjee Jehangir, J.A.D. Naoroji, H.P. Mody, Mirza Ali Mahomed Khan, Rahimtulla Chinoy, Santidas Askaran, Mandlik and Ishwardas Laxmidas. #celebrating90amazingyears MARCH 19, 2019 THE BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY 03 Dear Friends, OUR GUESTS TODAY Water is life. Ensuring that everyone has water is our duty. Shri C.H. Rajashree Birla is Last week, we inaugurated a UV- Vidyasagar an exemplar in the based, safe drinking water plant Rao took charge area of community at the Malabar Hill Post Office. as Governor of initiatives and rural I’m glad that the Water Resource Maharashtra on development. A role Committee installed this right August 30, 2014. model, Mrs. Birla before the scorching summer. He brings with him spearheads the a vast and varied Aditya Birla Centre On March 13, St. Thomas Hospital experience of public service. for Community Initiatives and Rural and Sree Narayana Institute of Development, the group’s apex body Medical Science inaugurated the A senior leader from Telangana, Shri responsible for development projects. equipment donated by the Rotary Vidyasagar Rao has served as Union Minister Club of Bombay to them during the of State for Home Affairs and subsequently She oversees the group’s social and Kerala floods of 2018. Management as Union Minister of State for Commerce welfare driven work across 40 companies. and staff members from both the and Industry in the government led by Shri The Aditya Birla Group runs 18 hospitals entities thanked us profusely for Atal Behari Vajpayee from 1999-2004. and 52 schools; 45,000 students belong to the generous donation. I thank all underprivileged communities. Thousands our donors for their contributions Shri Vidyasagar Rao was elected to the 12th of under-served people receive free towards flood relief. Lok Sabha from Karimnagar constituency in treatment at these hospitals.
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